Spotlight on Gramercy Park!  Gramercy Park is a quiet and safe neighborhood in Manhattan, known for it’s beautiful architecture, peaceful streets and noted private park. The entire neighborhood is actually an historic district, a tiny jewel close to everything yet keeping an aura of old time New York with its quiet narrow streets. Its central location is a big bonus – it’s boundaries are 14th Street to the south, First Avenue to the east, 23rd Street to the north, and Park Avenue South to the west, and within walking distance to Midtown, NoHo, SoHo and as well as the East and West Village. Homes for sale in Gramercy Park are some of the most prized in the city. Large brownstones, Victorian architecture, and new luxury apartments make up the offerings in this charming community. East 19t... 09/07/2015

 This sounds like an urban myth, but it isn't: In Gramercy, there's a 390-square-foot studio that holds a queen-sized bed, living area, dining area for four, a decent amount of storage, and still has room for entertaining. The catch? The apartment is essentially robotic. The same architecture firm behind one of the city's most famous micro-digs,MKCA, bestowed the foldable apartment treatment onto this compact space and created 5:1, a highly-proficient studio that uses a mechanized moving wall to form different areas when needed throughout the day (h/t The Contemporist).   What allows the tiny studio to be all that it is is the MKCA-designed"motorized sliding storage element." The motorized wall moves across the apartment to create a dressing area or, when pulled farther toward the couch... 04/16/2015

This structure, formerly perched at the corner of 18th Street and Irving Place, is largely considered to be New York City's first apartment building. At the time of its construction in 1869 and 1870, the city's housing landscape was divided between tenements and townhouses. The Stuyvesant Flats, developed by Rutherford Stuyvesant and designed by Richard Morris Hunt, bridged the gap and filled the need for upscale but condensed housing with a multi-family building in which units had their own toilets; and thus the apartment building was born, and New York was changed forever (and ever.) The building would go on to house well-known names like landscape painterWorthington Whittredge and the widow of General Custer, Elizabeth Custer, says The Bowery Boys.   11/12/2014

  RFR Realty founders Aby Rosen and Michael Fuchs have put the Gramercy Park Hotel on the market. The 186-room, 18-story hotel at 2 Lexington Avenue is valued at $260 million. Developer Ian Schrager, along with Rosen and Fuchs, helmed the $200 million gut renovation of the property in 2006. Four years later, the owners defaulted on a $140 million loan, as previously reported. The partners then bought out Schrager’s stake and restructured the debt. The owners are considering selling a partial stake or refinancing the hotel, according to Crain’s. Eastdil Secured is marketing the property.   11/04/2014

GRAMERCY PARK — Residents of an exclusive Gramercy Park enclave are up in arms after their neighbors — Lauren Santo Domingo, a New York socialite and Voguecontributing editor, and her Colombian billionaire beer heir husband Andres Santo Domingo — began digging a geothermal well beneath their townhouse.   A massive drill for the Santo Domingos' well began pounding on Monday, rendering the gated Gramercy Park "uninhabitable" because of the noise, residents said. Construction staging has dangerously pushed pedestrians from the sidewalk out into the street and trucks for the project have crashed into three street trees, destroying them, residents said.  "Everybody is furious. It's a complete disregard for the neighbors," said Pamela Vassil, who has lived on the north side of the park for 40... 09/11/2014

340 East 23rd Street GRAMERCY STARCK SKYHOUSE -A For Sale $1,495,000. Gramercy Starck Condominium SKYHOUSE with spectacular unobstructed Southern views.  This bright apartment has Wall of Windows with outdoor and indoor living at its best.   The living room open to its full size terrace with unobstructed wiews that will wow your guests.   Open Southern exposure in the living room with all day bright sunny open view. Open kitchen that is easy to entertain guests and also with Southern open exposures. The Sunny unobstructed exposure can see all the way down to Financial District and gorgeous Manhattan skyline. The master bedroom is located upstairs and has it's own private balcony along with an en-suite bathroom that features an amazing soaking tub with views of Downtown Manhattan. Conven... 07/25/2014

JUST SOLD340 East 23rd Street Gramercy Starck SKYHOUSE-A SOLDGramercy Starck Condominium SKYHOUSE 340 East 23rd Street with spectacular unobstructed Southern views.  This Sunny SKYHOUSE has Wall of Windows with outdoor and indoor living at its best.Spacious living room open to its full size terrace with open Southern wiews that will wow your guests.Unobstructed Southern exposure in the living room with all day bright sunny open view. Open kitchen that is easy to entertain guests and also with Southern open exposures.The Sunny unobstructed exposure can see all the way down to Financial District and gorgeous Manhattan skyline. The master bedroom is located upstairs and has it’s own private balcony along with an en-suite bathroom that features an amazing soaking tub with views of Downtown ... 04/16/2015